PACKAGES START AT $520
GET FRACTIONAL ACCESS TO A START-UP PR VETERAN
Are you looking to drive awareness about your company, but can’t afford the overhead of a PR agency while a downturn looms? No problem. With some writing on my part — and a little hustle from you — we can affordably get the word out.
For a nominal fee, I can draw upon 26 years of writing experience to draft a press release that talks about what you’re doing in the most reporter-friendly way possible. I can even tell you who to share your release with or send it over the wire on your behalf.
PRESS RELEASE $520 | TARGETED LIST OF RELEVANT REPORTERS $1040 | BOTH $1560
HOW IT WORKS:
1) Choose the PR package that makes the most sense for you
2) I’ll send a meeting invite so we can discuss your news in depth
3) I’ll draft your press release and share it via Google Docs
4) I’ll provide up to two rounds of revisions
5) I’ll send your release out via the wire or tell you whom to email (additional fees required)
HAVE QUESTIONS BEFORE WE BEGIN?
CHRIS BOYLES, ACCIDENTAL PR FLACK
While I started working as an ad agency copywriter in 1996, I didn’t start working in PR until 2014. That’s when my employer — a hot app development studio — became disillusioned with pricey boutique agencies. Though I was working as a content marketer at the time, I offered to try my hand at PR.
Using my well-honed storytelling skills to convey our company’s unique hooks, I ultimately drove over 60 pieces of news coverage within the first six months. Since then, I’ve helped a variety of early-stage startups attract media attention. My secret: I don’t just tell reporters what my clients want them to know, I tell reporters the things I know they’ll want to hear.
Coverage I’ve Secured
What I’ve achieved as a one-man PR agency and in-house communications lead
ONRAMP FUNDS
Onramp Funds accelerates e-commerce financing platform with $42M in equity, credit [TechCrunch]
KUNGFU.AI
Want to win with AI? Focus on your leadership, not the competition [VentureBeat]
Deadline 2024: Why you only have three years left to adopt AI [VentureBeat]
VOLTAGE CONTROL
How to hold better meetings in a hybrid workplace [Quartz]
HYPERGIANT
Why the government needs to create a $10B venture fund for A.I. [Nextgov]
For your next business opportunity, look to the stars [SpaceNews]
The venture studio is the model we need right now [VentureBeat]
AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor [TechCrunch]
Next-gen spacesuit helmet has an “Iron Man” heads-up display [Futurism]
This agency built its own hologram pitch deck to explain artificial intelligence [Adweek]
HYPERSCIENCES
HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision [TechCrunch]
HyperSciences wants to ‘gamechange’ spaceflight with hypersonic drilling tech [TechCrunch]
KINDHEALTH
You can buy “gap insurance” to help pay your health insurance deductible [Lifehacker]
MOUSER ELECTRONICS
How to build working versions of Iron Man's gauntlet and Captain America's shield [Gizmodo]
Building Iron Man's gauntlet and Captain America's shield [CNET]
Iron Man’s gauntlet and Cap’s shield battle it out for science [Nerdist]
HONEST DOLLAR
Tailoring retirement plans to companies with a handful of workers [New York Times]
Startup’s aim: cheaper retirement plans for small firms [Wall Street Journal]
With $3M in funding, Honest Dollar hopes to make retirement plans affordable for SMBs [TechCrunch]
THOUGHTLEADR
Why native advertising won't suffer the fate of banner ads [Digiday]
BANTER
To push its private social network, Banter focuses on privates [CNET]
CHAOTIC MOON
Playing 'Death from Above' with Oculus Rift [Engadget]
What Facebook might look like using Oculus Rift [Mashable]
This is what Facebook will could look like on Oculus Rift [Engadget]
Will tomorrow's entrepreneurs learn with virtual reality? [Entrepreneur]
Why a drone called Cupid is fitted with a stun gun [BBC]
SXSW 2014 wrap-up: Snoop Dogg, stun copter, Snowden, Mario Kart and more [Engadget]
Watch this drone taser a guy until he collapses [Time]
Chaotic Moon Studio’s CUPID stun gun drone is real, terrifying [Digital Trends]
SXSW 2014: CUPID, a drone that can tase you [Popular Mechanics]
We strapped into an Oculus Rift with a Leap Motion controller and punched sharks at SXSW 2014 [Popular Mechanics]
A stun-gun drone designed to incapacitate criminals is the scariest thing at SXSW [Business Insider]
SXSW 2014: company demonstrates CUPID stun-gun drone [CBS News]
Texas start-up tasers intern via stun-copter to spark discussion about tech at SXSW [ABC News]
‘Shark Punch’ shows off Oculus potential [Bloomberg TV]
Meet the drone that shoots stun darts at people [Bloomberg TV]
Don’t tase me, drone [Marketplace]
Watch this drone stun a man [CNN]
Flying taser drone delivers 80,000 volts of paralyzing fear [Mashable]
Useful! The drone with an 80,000-volt stun gun [CNET]
The CUPID drone strikes with 80,000 volts to the chest [The Verge]
Meet CUPID: the drone that will shoot you with an 80,000 volt taser [Gizmodo]
Watch a stun gun drone tase an intern [Popular Science]
Punching virtual sharks for points with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion [Engadget]
Watch a man get stunned by the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (stun copter!) [Engadget]
Order pizza with hand motions using Pizza Hut's new interactive tabletop [Popular Science]
Because some days you just want to customize on a giant touchscreen tabletop [TechCrunch]
Pizza Hut’s interactive touch table could be coming to a restaurant near you [Fast Company]
Pizza Hut's concept touch table lets you swipe your way to a perfect pie [Engadget]
Interactive virtual reality in 3-D, the newest learning tool [Fast Company]
The last thing cars need: more apps [Forbes]
OK Glass, launch this rocket [Fast Company]
If you can't beat them, buy them [Fast Company]
MUTUAL MOBILE
Want to recruit better developers? Given them broken code. [Fast Company]